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St. Paul News
MPR News Staff

St. Paul police fatally shoot man

A police vehicle parked with lights flashing.
A St. Paul police squad car is seen in December 2023.
Nicole Neri for MPR News File

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The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating after St. Paul police fatally shot a man on Saturday afternoon.

Authorities said the shooting happened as officers responded to a tip on the whereabouts of a homicide suspect — though police have not yet said whether that man is the person who died.

According to the initial account from St. Paul police:

Officers responded to the 1100 block of West Seventh Street just after 1 p.m. on an anonymous call reporting the whereabouts of a 36-year-old man wanted in connection with a homicide last month in St. Paul. The man had been charged in the fatal shooting of his pregnant ex-wife.

Officers waited and watched the laundromat where the man reportedly had been seen — and then police got another call that a man on a bicycle in front of the business was the homicide suspect.

As the man rode his bike a block south on Bay Street, uniformed officers approached to confirm whether he was the homicide suspect.

“When officers approached the man, he was armed with a handgun and officers fired their service weapons, striking him,” police reported in a news release.

The initial report did not say whether the man pointed the gun at officers, or give other information on what led officers to open fire.

The man was taken to Regions Hospital, where he died a short time later.

The officers involved were wearing body cameras that were activated, police said. They’re on standard administrative leave as the BCA investigates the shooting.

Saturday’s shooting happened less than two weeks after St. Paul police shot and wounded a man who was later charged in connection with the fatal shooting of three people — and a separate, non-fatal shooting — in Minneapolis.